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Plus-sized models swim against the current of the fashion industry, attempting to undo cultural stigmas. Czerniawski draws from Naomi Wolf\u2019s claim that standards of beauty are tools of power, and from studies that highlight the implicit \u201cdisembodiment\u201d of the fashion industry. Some treat their bodies as treated as passive objects to admire; others see their bodies as enemies that can never be defeated (\u201cMy body hates me!\u201d). In these and other scenarios, people make a sharp distinction between self and body. Call it the Cartesian foundation of the fashion industry.<\/p>\n

One of Czerniawski\u2019s findings is that plus-size models don\u2019t really challenge the assumptions of the fashion industry at a fundamental level. They engage in similar efforts to control weight, shape, and size, and these \u201ctechnologies\u201d only serve to \u201creinforce their sense of disembodiment.\u201d Given the way \u201cthin aesthetics\u201d commands the field, she is skeptical that \u201cplus-size models can reclaim their embodiment through this craft.\u201d<\/p>\n

We need, she suggests, not models of different size and shape, but a more fundamental questioning of the fashion industry itself and its current domination of our conceptions of beauty, especially the beauty of women.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"